Routing IPv6 with BGP - The Basics

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Are you sensing a theme lately? Since we covered the basics of the main IGPs (I’m an enterprise guy, so no IS-IS comments, please.), I thought I’d try to describe the basics of advertising IPv6 routes over BGP. Yet again, we’re not going to do any route manipulation or change any of the 948284928 BGP attributes. We’re just trying to get routes exchanged.

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There’s no new version of BGP for IPv6 here. It’s the standard BGP version 4 that we’ve all been using for years, but we’re going to take advantage of the multiprotocol support (MPBGP, RFC 2858 RFC 4760). We’ll get to the differences in a second, but the first thing to do is to set up the BGP process as normal.

OSPFv3 - The Basics

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A few hours ago, the last of the IPv4 addresses were allocated by IANA. Now’s the time to learn more about IPv6! Yesterday, I posted about EIGRP for IPv6, so I think I’ll continue the trend by introducing OSPFv3, which is the IPv6 implementation of OSPF. As always, I’m using Cisco routers here. Just as yesterday, this is just a guide to the absolutely basics; if you want to do some funky OSPF magic, you won’t find it here - perhaps in time, though.

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Routing IPv6 with BGP - The Basics

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OSPFv3 - The Basics